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HARDWOOD RECORD 



acquaintance among the trade and, having been 

 brought up from a mere boy in close connection 

 with the himber business, is amply equipped to 

 successfully handle all phases of it. With his 

 past reputation behind him his continued suc- 

 cess is assured. 



Fred Jeffris of the Chicago Car Lumber Com- 

 pany announces that the contract for the grad- 

 ing of the railroad on that company's new- 

 southern operations is already let and opera- 

 tions will begin immediately. A steam loader 

 fitted up with a shoveling device will be used 

 altogether and the track will be laid as this 

 progresses. 



The joint outing committees of the Chicago 

 lumber associations have decided upon August IG 

 as the date for the coming picnic which will 

 talie place at Ravinia Park. 



F. B. McMulien. Chicago representative of 

 the Fullerton-Powell Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany, is on a trip through New York state and 

 lower Canada. He will return to Chicago about 

 the first of August. 



K. J. Darnell of Memphis was here a few 

 days ago on business. 



The two B*s of the Hardwood Mills Lumber 

 Company, Bennett and Baker, deserve special 

 mention in these columns. While the former 

 was enjoying a quiet vacation in central Michi- 

 gan -the latter became the father of a second 

 son. The boy arrived on July l:*. 



Jim Trainer of the Trainer Brothers Lumber 

 <\)mpany has returned with his wife and daugh- 

 ter from an extensive trip through lower 

 (.'anadian and eastern points. He reports hav- 

 ing had the time of his life. The party spent 

 several days on the coast and had some ex 

 cellent deep sea fishing. 



NEW YORK 



W. K. \'.iu Wcit. head of thp NY-w Voi-Jj sales 

 office of tbe Emporium Lumber Company, re- 

 turned last week from a lengthy western busi- 

 ness trip. He spent considerable time at the 

 (Jaleton and Keating Summit Mills of the com- 

 pany. At Keating Summit, the company's fine 

 new maple floorinir plant is about ready to start 

 liusinoss. The company is also installing a fine 

 battery of dry kilns at Galeton. 



The Lumbermen's Club of New York, through 

 its Board of Governors, has closed a deal witii 

 (he Hoffman House Hotel. Twenty-fifth and 

 Broadway, for greatly enlarged headquarters 

 which will be ready for occupancy September 

 1. These quarters will be more commodiou.s and 

 will present to out-of-town lumbermen as well 

 as members, clu!) features which are not avail- 

 able at the present quarters. With a member- 

 ship of oi'er two hundred, the club will undoubt- 

 ediy continue to grow rapidly under the new ad- 

 vantages thus provided, 



K. .T, Marsh of the Marsh Cypress Company, 

 Waycross, Ga,. was in town during the fortnight 

 with Mrs. Marsh for a brief visit. He reports 

 business good. His company has been running 

 full time right along and has .I'ust concluded 

 several large shipments of dry stocks to nortli- 

 ern points. One hundred new logging cars have 

 recently been added to its railroad equipment, 



TTie Hoban-IIunter-Feitner Company, the large 

 wholesale cypress house, recently iucri'ased its 

 capital stock from $30,000 to $100,000, to fa- 

 cilitate the conduct of business. Since openins 

 its distributing yard, the company has been 

 steadily accumulating complete stocks of all 

 sizes and grades of cypress, and by August 1 

 will have a large quantity of lumber and shin- 

 gles for quick shipment. The concern aims to 

 extend to the yard dealers and legitimate manu- 

 facturing trade of the East, quick service in 

 cypress orders as against the more tedious de- 

 lays of car or vessel shipments from the mills. 



and to this end no expense or effort has been 

 spared to develop facilities, 



Walter Adams, sales manager for the Cummer 

 Lumber Company, 1 Madison avenue,, is back 

 from a visit to Jacksonville, Fla., head(|uarters. 



W. B. I.ukens, the I'hiladelphla cypress man, 

 has been here lately closing up some business 

 matters. 



L. 1". Hider, 1 Madison avenue, is home again 

 from a business trip in the Ottawa Valley, 

 (.'anada. 



IL W. Kalt, Kalt Lumber Company, hard- 

 woods, ;il:; East Sixty-fourth street, is spend- 

 ing a few days with his family at .\arragansetl 

 I'ier, R. 1., where they are summering, 



H, K. Summer of H, H, Salmon & Co.. 88 

 Wall street, is spending the week ends with 

 his family at Asbury Park. >.'. ,J. 



Koland McClave of E, W. McClavi- & Sons, is 

 summering at Deal Beach, X. .1.. with his 

 lamily. 



S. Herrnstadt. who was formerly in the wliole- 

 sale hardwood business at tiG Broad street, 

 Xianhattan, and who recently went into bank- 

 ruptcy, has received his discharge therefrom. 



BUFFALO 



There is a feeling on the part of more than 

 one of the better posted members of the lum- 

 ber trade that the low end of all business, 

 including lumber, has been reached and the up- 

 turn is in sight. All the hardwood interests 

 were much pleased over the reports from the 

 Grand Rapids furniture exposition for the good 

 sales made there appear to have exceeded any- 

 thing in recent .years and if they mean any 

 thing they mean a demand soon for the low 

 grades that have been vexing all sides of the 

 lumber trade lately, soft as well as hardwoods. 

 Low grades are in poor demand and the yards 

 are full of them. 



I'ractically all the members of the lumber 

 trade are in the city this summer. The 

 trip of M, M. Wall to British Columbia wan 

 a flying one and the effort to locate lumber 

 in the South is not usually made in midsum- 

 mer. The automobile has made it easy for 

 people to take a week-end trip almost any- 

 where and this is the way the old long trips 

 are turned to a different account. 



There is an effort of the Hoo-Hoos to get 

 up something in the outing line that should in- 

 vlude everybody in the order here, so Vicegerent 

 Briggs has appointed a large committee witli 

 A. \V. Kreinheder at the head to take the mat- 

 ter up. There is no doubt that the response 

 will be favorable. 



The baseball spirit of the Buffalo lumber- 

 men, especially the hardwood members of the 

 trade, is sliown by their turning out to the 

 gamp on the 10th as members of the Chamber 

 of Commerce. This body is preparing to play 

 a game with the Ad Club before long, when 

 some of the old players from the yards will no 

 doubt get another chance on the diamond. 



It will hardly he of account to take up the 

 various hardwoods by name now, as ail are 

 dull but !irm, with the call pretty uniform 

 all the way from oak down. Tile effort is 

 til locate enough of everything to meet the fall 

 trade. Mill prices are pretty stiff, but the 

 complaint is that logs are so high that good 

 Ijrices must be received if the mills are to run 

 at all. 



About the busiest man in the lumber trade 

 is O. E. Yeager, for he is not only filling up 

 his yard with new stock and making gcoil 

 pales, but is chairman of the utility race 'i>m- 

 mittee of the Automobile Club, which has a 

 four-day run next month, 



I, N, Stewart & Bro, are getting some good 

 sales of oak and chestnut and are adding to 

 their stock and keeping an eye on the rini 

 of trade, II, A, Stewart being off to New York 

 this week on business. 



I'resident F. A. Beyer of the I'ascola Lum- 

 ber Company is keeping pretty close to the 

 county treasurer's office these days, but he did 

 find time to attend the ball game with the 

 Chamber of Commerce group the other day, 

 rascola lumber moves. 



The big mill of G. Ellas & Bro. is deep 

 into orders for house building and it is at the 

 same time looking for eastern work, which is- 

 good these days. Lake cargoes of pine and hem- 

 lock are coming in. 



The long experience of T. Sullivan & Co, 

 in the Canadian trade still keeps the firm io 

 touch with what little hardwood there is left 

 in Canada and southern forests do the rest. 

 Lake receipts are of Washington flr and spruce 

 this year. 



Hugh McLean sticks to the eastern sales 

 Held about as closely as ever and the south- 

 western mills of the compan.v are active again. 

 though there is complaint that logs are not 

 jjlenty. There will be need of the lumber this 

 fall. 



The yard of V. W, \'<>tter shows the effect 

 oi liberal ptirchases of all sorts of hardwood 

 early in the season, Imt he will get the beneflt 

 next fall, if signs do not all fail. His yard 

 has never been so well stocked as now, 



Scatcherd & Soo are especially active in the 

 effort to keep the Batavia hardwood door 

 mill stocked up. The demand for oak and 

 mahogany is large, as the mill caters to the 

 finishing of big blocks in New York City. 



M, M. Wall has come back from his in- 

 spection of the timber tracts that the mem- 

 bers cf the Buffalo Hardwood Lumber Com- 

 pany bought last .year in British Columbia, 

 more than well pleased with the outlook. Mills 

 later on, but probably not this year. 



The .vard of the Standard Hardwood Lumber 

 Company is always full of cars of oak that 

 have come up from below the C>hio, wliicli are 

 aU the more needed now for the business di- 

 rect, with the furniture factor.v and dry kiln 

 to keep busy. 



Basswood, ash and elm are th<' woods that 

 .\. .Miller is looking after especially ,inst now, 

 getting the woods in from the Southwest, Trade 

 is light, but it covers all sorts in an encour- 

 aging way. There will be stock in for the 

 fall trade. 



PHILADELPHIA 



The lladdoek-I'rance Lumber (.'omf)any reports 

 its mill at Mount Sterling, N. C, working full 

 capacity and sold close up to saw. Orders are 

 coming in fairly well for this time of year. 



.1. E, Troth, president .T, S. Kent Company, 

 says there is a fair amount of business every 

 day, but the volume is short of expectation 

 and from no quarter is an impetus looked for 

 before fall. 



Schofield Brothers are not inclined to worry 

 over trade conditions, as business with them 

 is satisfactory. The Schotteld-Lance Company, 

 Heading, I'a., in which they are interested, is 

 very busy and the yard is well stocked with 

 best grades of hardwood and white pine. The 

 Saitkeatchie Lumber Company, Schofield, S. C„ 

 another interest, lias been forced to shut down 

 for boiler inspection. It has enough on hand 

 to keep the saws buzzing day and night. John 

 II. Schofield is making a tour of the "X'irginla 

 and West Virginia lumber camps sizing up sit- 

 uation and closing desirable deals. This fore- 

 most firm has received the prize for having 

 designed the handsomest business calendar of 

 the year. 



Wistar, Underbill & Co. remain tranquil as 

 to business questions, The,v claim the volume 

 compares well with tliis period a year ago. 

 They have recently added two more salesmen 

 to their staff, William C. Uoss, formerly of ^ 

 the Producers' Lumber Company, to cover 



